Vice President Kamala Harris’s past caught up with her again earlier this week after President Joe Biden announced he would end his reelection campaign and endorsed her as the Democratic nominee.
According to the San Francisco Standard, former San Fran Mayor Willie Brown held a short news conference outside a restaurant in the city and endorsed Harris. The outlet only noted that Brown “dated Harris when she was an Alameda County prosecutor in the mid-1990s,” but there is much more to the story.
But there’s more to their relationship. As noted by Politico in 2019, San Francisco newspapers first mentioned Harris in 1994, when a columnist noted that actor Clint Eastwood had spilled champagne on Brown’s “new steady” at Brown’s 60th birthday. At the time, Harris was just 29 years old.
